[parisc-linux] need tftp boot and ELF

willy@thepuffingroup.com willy@thepuffingroup.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:46:50 -0500


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:28:20PM -0500, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> 
> 
> > [1] A simple elf->som translator would be sufficient to enable the
> > hpux boot loader to work again.
> 
> Hmm... any chance someone is going to do this?  Considering I
> have yet to see a shell and I have no way to restore my HPUX if
> it breaks (I gave away the tape drive and there's no CD.)  
> I'm not about to go partitioning my hard disk.  I need to boot
> from a tftp server.  

you can still boot from a tftp server using palo.  i agree this isn't
clear in the palo docs (i initially thought you couldn't either).
suggestions on making this more obvious gratefully received.